Microsoft’s Office suite of apps are more or less the industry standard in productivity softwares. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are almost synonymous with their respective. But these products aren’t exactly cheap, so to fix that, Microsoft has for sometime now had web-based versions of these apps. Popularly known by their names, Word Online, Excel Online and Powerpoint Online, these web-apps were designed to take on the likes of Google Docs....

PRESS RELEASE: MTN Uganda, in partnership with aYo, today announced innovative micro-insurance products, Recharge with Care and Send with Care. The two are the first products launched by aYo – a joint venture between MTN and MMI Holdings – announced in September last year . aYo was formulated to have a strong focus on delivering micro-insurance solutions across the African continent. If you are looking for a great insurance agency, go to One Sure Insurance....

Mobile TV is the now-thing, and the adoption seems to be bringing home more partnerships, after all – the customer is KING! MTN Uganda has today announced yet another partnership with StarTimes Uganda, one that will see the company offer special promotional MTN TV bundles for viewers to watch the latest StarTimes entertainment, sports and news using the StarTimes app. For as low as UGX 2,000 for two hours, and UGX 4,000 for four hours, per day; MTN customers can dial 1654*7# on their mobile phone and select StarTimes to load a bundle....

MTN Uganda has today launched HelloWorld, a roaming service that enables MTN customers to enjoy discounted calling, SMS and internet rates while travelling to their favorite destinations around the world. “In addition to affordable roaming rates, MTN HelloWorld offers peace of mind and convenience to travelling customers. We are delighted to have introduced a solution that will allow customers to keep their MTN number on to stay in touch without the need to get a new SIM card or buy a calling card in every country visit,” said MTN Uganda’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mapula Bodibe....

YoTVChannels, a mobile and web-based platform that provides mainly local media content and MTN Uganda today unveiled a TV streaming data plan. The new plan will provide you with unlimited access to local TV and Radio for a 30 days FREE trial period after which you will upgrade to a subscription plan of your own preference. While announcing this partnership, Aggrey Mugisha, the YoTVChannels CEO said that the partnership shows that both MTN and YoTVChannels are committed to promoting local content by allowing Ugandans to enjoy uninterrupted local TV and Radio at their convenience through YOTVChannels....

Quotables: “We recognize that the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody, and as such, it is our goal to enable as many new connections as possible. Juzza Internet is yet another step towards realising this goal. Advertisement - Continue reading below “We know that our customers want value for money and we have thus introduced an offer that will enable our customers to enjoy a significant reduction in the costs of their Data, to satisfy their needs....

On July 1st, the government introduced two new taxes, the OTT tax and the mobile money tax. Ever since the introduction of mobile money tax, transactions across mobile money services declined. The government tried to refine the tax by removing tax on deposits and reducing the tax from 1% to 0.5%. However, the new mobile money tax hadn’t come into effect until today. Speaking to the Parliament on Thursday, the state minister for Finance David Bahati assured the house that the new tax of 0....

HMD Global keeps on pushing new Nokia devices into the market , effectively covering all the segments. The newest addition to the family being the Nokia 2, a really cheap Android phone that continues the now familiar design language with a huge battery to go with it. The Nokia 2 is priced at around $120 and pushes the spec sheet a bit too low for today’s standards and a battery that shames most of the current flagships ....

Here’s a full review detailing our experience with the Nokia 2.4, one of the best Nokia smartphones to buy on a very low budget. We gave our comprehensive first impression of the device when we unboxed it over a week ago . This time, we’re taking you on a full ride. We’ll walk you through our first-hand usage experience in this review. Gaming and Performance The first thing I did when I got the device last week was to download a bunch of different (light & heavy) games from the Play Store to test run the MediaTek Helio P22 chipset....

The Oneplus One is now available to purchase without an invite or having to wait till Tuesday every week. Oneplus One announced this on their Twitter and Facebook profiles in celebration of their first birthday. It’s been a year since Oneplus One was launched onto the market. At the time it was launched, you could only get the device if you had an invite. Getting an invite in itself was so technical that you would think people would have moved on....

Earlier this month, Oppo teased an under-display front camera on its social media channels. The technology goes one step further than the current punch-hole solution and completely hides the shooter behind the display when not in use. On June 26 the company will take the prototype to the Asian Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, where people will get to see the future in real life. For those seeking the perfect, notchless smartphone screen experience – prepare to be amazed....

Payway Uganda, the payment processing company with sleek Kiosks and wide agent network across the country has enabled payment status on its website . How it works Users who pay for utility bills such as Umeme Yaka, Airtime, event tickets, data among other things simply have to logon to www.payway.ug. There they can click on the Payment Check link at the top side of the page and fill in the Receipt ID and the Terminal Name as written on their receipt and then press Send....

It seems as though the hardware department at Google have been productively busy the past couple of months that the company couldn’t wait to share what its next smartphone flagship product would look like in the future. According to a recent tweet by Google on one of its official Twitter accounts ( @madebygoogle ), we now have tiny (but genuine) information as to what the next Pixel smartphone would look like on the exterior....

Have you heard? There’s a new Ugandan smartphone app that’s hellbent on putting us law-abiding humans out of commission and turning us all into self-indulgent couch potatoes. What I am talking about is none other than Qwicart. From what we heard, a one Joshua Mugisha, formerly of Brighter Monday, and his crew are the brains behind this intriguing remote-shopping app. But don’t take our word for it. After all, they do have a website and social media presence....

Looking for a way to take out certain backgrounds and replace them with another? Remove BG is an online software that allows you to achieve this without even creating an account. This software uses a clever AI that cuts out an image’s background by making it transparent. You can remove backgrounds from all types of images – people, cars, animals, products, and even graphics. If you work on a large scale, they also have plugins that integrate with your other work tools like photoshop, Figma, WooCommerce, and other computing environments....

If you thought you had gotten rid of the flip phone, ten you have another think coming. Samsung seems to think this make still has the potential to impress and an added benefit of fitting in your pocket ta you don’t have to carry around something heavy and big that will occupy a lot of palm-space or space in your handbag. And recently, Samsung just unveiled the W2017 Clamshell flip phone in China....

Safaricom Kenya has today announced that their 5G network is now live and available to users. Albeit in some select specific areas. The Safaricom 5G launch areas are spread across 8 counties; Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, Kisii, Machakos, Kakamega, Kisumu, and Kajiado. This is a major milestone for the leading telco in Kenya and comes after some delays in its initial plan. The initial plan was to have the Safaricom 5G network launch in Q1 of 2022....

Not many are privy to a little technology that has the potential of revolutionising how we connect our devices to our carriers. The Embedded SIM, or eSIM, sometimes e-SIM, is a way of connecting your device to a network without a traditional physical SIM Card. In Kenya, we recently saw Faiba4G, the country’s youngest and disruptive teleco introducing this to its users although we still don’t have the numbers for how this feature is going....

A new entrant — Samsung Galaxy M11— has been added to Samsung’s M series. This is an upgrade —a major one, actually— to the predecessor, M10. A number of new features were added and we’re here to unpack. This post covers the specifications, features, and price of the Galaxy M11 smartphone. Samsung Galaxy M11 Key Specs DISPLAY : 6.4 inches PLS TFT Display, 720 x 1560 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~268 ppi) OS : Android 10....

Samsung Uganda launched the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge a few days ago at Acacia Mall and now, the device is available for sale in Uganda. As of today, you can buy the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge at MTN Uganda stores . For a flagship, we were a little shocked at the price because we were expecting it to past the 3 million shillings mark but it didn’t....